Jim Henderson escribió:
> With a decent connection to the 'net, surfing the web 15 years ago was 
> generally faster, if only because the amount of crap that people put on 
> web pages was reduced.  15 years ago, the big thing being talked about 
> was whether or not to use blink tags for $DEITY's sake.  Now it's all 
> about flash animations and dynamically updating web applications which 
> should *really* be implemented not using web technologies, but rather 
> using desktop development technologies.

OMG somebody with common sense...

Some months ago I started writing my own NNTP server just so I could 
read web forums from Thunderbird, along with news.povray.org. The idea 
was writing both the server and the web scraper. Yet another abandoned 
project, for now.

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